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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By : Chris Noxx
Book Image

A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By: Chris Noxx

Overview of this book

A digital audio workstation empowering both aspiring and seasoned producers to create original music compositions, FL Studio has not only advanced the culture of collaboration across several genres but has provided a creative outlet for up-and-coming artists worldwide. Achieving professional production prowess takes practice, market insight, and mentorship. This book explains how the author used FL Studio as a creative palette to build a successful career as a record producer, using specific techniques and workflow processes that only FL Studio can accommodate. You’ll develop a Power User's mindset, create signature sounds using stock FL Studio One Shots, create top-level drum loops, learn about FL Studio's VST’s, and approach arrangements from a practical and pop music perspective. This comprehensive guide covers everything from crafting and adding hypnotic melodies and chords, to mixing and mastering productions, and promoting those records to artists and companies, to take your career to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create original productions from scratch using FL Studio’s virtual instruments and sound kits, mix and master the finished production, and arrange it using the Billboard-charting formula.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1:Understanding the Basics
3
Part 2:Creating Music with FL Studio
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Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts

Optimizing workflow in the Piano Roll

We maximize workflow by creating Project bones templates and saving them to our packs folder. Project bones is a feature in FL Studio that allows you to save and reuse specific parts of your project. These can include mixer track settings, pattern settings, plugin settings, and so on. Essentially, Project bones allow you to save a “skeleton” or framework of your project that you can reuse in future projects or share with other users. Project bones include everything from your MIDI patterns in the Piano Roll to mixing presets. Creating Project bones is an effective export tool that allows you to save your workflow templates for future use and composing.

In this chapter, we have discussed how to get the most out of the Piano Roll. There are two distinct ways we can optimize future workflow when composing melody and chord progressions:

  • The first is by using the MIDI export theory, in which we export a specific Piano Roll pattern...